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All About MySQL 4.1
The MySQL database server is the world's most popular open source database. MySQL 4.1, the latest production-ready release includes numerous enhancements that improveperformance, internationalization, and the ability to embed the MySQL Server with other hardware and software solutions.
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Articles about 4.1
GIS and Spatial Extensions
Anders Karlsson takes a look at the new spatial extensions in MySQL 4.1, which allow for easier manipulation and storage of spatial datain geographic information system (GIS) and non-GIS applications.
Unicode and Other Funny Characters
We continue our tour of new features in MySQL 4.1 with a look at the extended character sethandling, including support for Unicode. The article by Jim Winstead also includes a technique for handling UTF-8 data in web forms that copes with broken browser implementations.
The all-new MySQLServer Windows Installer
A new feature just introduced with MySQL 4.1.5 is a totally revamped installer for the Microsoft Windows platform. Michael G. Zinner explains the new installer and how you canuse it to get MySQL up and running even more quickly on Windows.
Prepared Statements
Harrison Fisk explains the benefits (and trade-offs) of the new server-side prepared statements and the support forit from various programming languages.
Temporal Functionality
We continue our tour of new and improved features in 4.1 with a look at the changes to the temporal (date and time related)functionality, including support for fractional seconds, time zones, and a small army of new functions for slicing and dicing temporal information.
Structure Means Subqueries: Nesting SELECTs in MySQL 4.1Subqueries are another way to get data from multiple tables using a single query, and MySQL 4.1 includes support for this standard SQL construct. Trudy Pelzer explains what this allows you to do, along...